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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






2. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






3. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






4. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






5. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






6. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






7. The selection of words in a literary work.






8. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






9. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






10. The main character of a literary work.






11. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






12. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






13. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






14. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






15. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






16. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






17. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






18. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






19. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






20. A four line stanza in a poem.






21. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






22. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






23. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






24. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






25. A short saying with a moral.






26. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






27. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






28. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






29. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






30. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






31. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






32. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






33. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






34. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






35. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






36. A three-line stanza.






37. A strong pause within a line.






38. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






39. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






40. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






41. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






42. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






43. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






44. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






45. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






46. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






47. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






48. A poem that tells a story.






49. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






50. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.